New York singer-songwriter Emily Zuzik has been around for a while, "The Wild Joys of Living" is her seventh studio album but as of late she has a higher profile visa vi singing with Moby, co-wroting the song "the Low Hum."

She's certainly become hot property, in addition to her Moby credits, she sings the theme song to NBC's "Love Bites," and her songs have also appeared in "Smallville," and the films "Ticking Clock" and "Fifth Form." And she works with Blue Man Group's Saturday Morning Puppet Club.

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Zuzik's latest is produced by her and guitarist Wes Hutchinson, who plays brilliantly and inventively throughout, like in the catchy "You Want To Go Out Tonight," which is the perfect top- down summer song, its guitars buzz in the verse, and open up to the sky in the chorus (and solo) as Zuzik soars above it all.

"How Did You Get So Good" has a slower, sultry groove, with big chunky guitars, and Zuzik singing about her lover with confidence and strength. The almost 1980s expansive-sounding "You Know When You Know" is a powerful lover's testimony.

Zuzik and company have come up with smart rock songs that are still fun and don't take themselves too seriously, and she is surely on track to be the new Sheryl Crow.